How Gentler Streak got its users
The entire distribution comes from Apple editorial features, earned through native craft and same-day adoption of every new OS capability.
Read from signals. Consistent with what is publicly observable, but nobody confirmed it. Check before you quote it.
Reproducible, but it will cost you real money, real months, or a skill you may not have.
The edge you do not have: An editorial relationship with Apple built over several release cycles
- Massive exposure with no budget
- Credibility that unlocks the press
- A rare level of polish
- To accept that one gatekeeper decides your growth
Third-party platform in 2026
The best effort-to-result ratio at the start, and the biggest platform risk later.
Everything on this channel →The play
4 steps, in the order they ran them.
- 1
Adopt every OS feature the day it ships. That is what the editorial team looks for
- 2
Push the visual identity to design-award level, not app level
- 3
Submit a feature pitch before every store tentpole moment
- 4
Build a brand story the editorial team can retell
The product itself
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Run this against your own product
Carries the play above, and is written to tell you no when this channel is out of reach for you.
The same twelve channels as an agent skill. It reads your repository and eliminates what you cannot run. Open source, MIT.
curl -o ~/.claude/skills/howtodistribute/SKILL.md https://howtodistribute.com/skill.md
How big it got
Apple Design Award, repeated App Store features
What else they ran
The evidence1 checkable
- Apple Design Award
They ran the same play
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